All Archive Titles articles – Page 870
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Building for all of us
I was thrilled to receive this month's CM. What's going on? The whole tenor seems to have shifted. Stuff that would hiterto have fast fallen upon the cutting room floor, not only in print, but in your editorial too. Great! Thank you.I used to find some of the coverage backward-looking, ...
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Archive TitlesLive action
The use of a single project model for construction has been around in the theoretical sense for some time, but few have hands-on experience of this technology. Waterman Gore share their experience with us.
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£6.3 million for green heating
The Energy Saving Trust and Carbon Trust has announced a £6.3 million investment in eight community heating schemes.
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Archive TitlesSpace programme
Space programme: This £3.5m scheme is being built in Erith, south-east London, by Orbit Housing Association. The 23 apartments were designed by local architect BPTW and the contractor is Hills Partnerships. The scheme has £2.4m in funding from the Housing Corporation's Kickstart fund for off-site manufacturing. The steel modules are ...
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Supporting People notice periods
If providers have an interim contract with a Supporting People administering authority, an across-the-board cut would be in breach of that contract (20 February, page 18).Many providers have not yet been reviewed by the Supporting People teams and there are usually notice periods relating to funding levels in the contracts ...
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Archive TitlesHow to … hire mystery shoppers
A covert tenant is a useful tenant when you want to assess services.
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Here's an idea
A video made by residents could let new arrivals know how they are expected to behave
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Archive TitlesSon of a gun
Son of a gun: This mixed-use development at Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth will provide 120 homes for key workers.The 483-home scheme, designed by Peter Crossley of architect Broadway Malyan, was approved by Portsmouth council on 18 February. It also includes shops and a nursery.Developer Berkeley Group is due to start ...
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MP gets it wrong
So, Denton and Reddish MP Andrew Bennett says his own experience of stock transfer in Tameside is that “tenants have seen little or no improvement” (20 February, page 12).He’s obviously spending his last months as an MP in committees or outside his own constituency. Perhaps he should be more aware ...
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Archive TitlesTaking flight
Taking flight: Planning permission has been granted for Falconer Court in Tottenham, north London. The scheme was designed by PRP Architects and will include 21 affordable homes. London & Quadrant Housing Association will own and manage the homes. The development also involves environmental improvements to the estate.
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My first job
Asra director Mukhtar Latif tells Ellen Bennett about his early days as a development officer
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Space exploration
The family on the front cover is one of an estimated 387,000 living in chronically cramped conditions (see pages 18-21). But according to the present standard, which dates back to 1935, the Clackson family is not, technically, "overcrowded". In fact, against this pre-war yardstick – which counts kitchens and bathrooms ...
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Euro social housing at risk of a poor future, warn surveyors
Social housing is increasingly becoming the tenure of the poor across Europe, an influential survey of European housing has revealed.
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St Mungo's not looking to double up
Re: "Let them eat cake" (13 February, page 11). The life research carried out by ORC International has enabled St Mungo's to focus on where the organisation needs to increase its support so that the numbers of people helped are doubled.If St Mungo's can double the funding for life skills ...
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Some solar myths dispelled
I am constantly annoyed by the ignorance displayed by those pontificating about "solar heating" (Letters, 20 February, page 22).Someone needs to lay out precisely what is, and what is not, achievable with solar water heating. Since I spent two-and-a-half years as customer liaison manager for one of the leading solar ...
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Opinion: Design of the times
It used to be almost a dirty word but a shift in thinking has given a new lease of life to 'design'.
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Archive TitlesSheffield: the DIY days
The steel city shows it's serious about getting tenants to solve community problems
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Ladies' day
Ladies' day: Paul Sweeney, community development director at Countryside Properties, joined some of the people attending a youth day organised by Stonebridge Housing Action Trust in north-west London. Countryside provided financial support for the event, which brought together local young people through sports tournaments, a talent showcase and focus groups ...
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Archive TitlesStamp duty rule to ramp up cost of mixed-tenure projects
Inland Revenue says charities must pay land tax on plots intended for homes to sell